Entries Categorized as 'business'

The Last Mile. Internet Shopping’s Weak Link.

Date November 6, 2006

Shopping over the Internet is easy – browse, point, click, pay. Often, a delivery charge is added, and not long after is where the problem starts. The other day I ordered a new laptop from Dell, and using their Order Tracking facility, I noticed that the delivery date which had been automatically scheduled wasn’t convenient for [...]

Windows Mobile 6.0 Smartphones to have Office Apps?

Date October 28, 2006

gpspassion.com have got some very nice screenshots of the the next release of Windows Mobile – which is codenamed Crossbow, but knowing Microsoft’s knack for fragging cool names prior to launch (Origami/UMPC, anyone?), it’ll be called WIndows Mobile 6.0. For Smartphone users, like me, the coolest thing about these screenshots is that they’re showing Office [...]

Scrybe is making me drool

Date October 20, 2006

Downloadsquad has an article about a yet-to-be-released-into-beta web-based organiser called Scrybe. Scrybe appears to be quite different to  others in this space, in that it offers the promise of off-line availability, time-zone awareness, note-taking, annotation and contextually-based usability; ok, that all sounds kind of vapourware-ish, but I can’t think of how to better express it – [...]